made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t
point lead, and nikki haley and ron desantis in a battle for second place. also, subzero temperatures could make it the coldest caucus day in iowa on record. plus, our very own steve kornacki at the big board tracking the story lines to watch, and how the result tonight could impact next week s new hampshire primary. meanwhile, new accusations, texas officials blocked border agents from saving a migrant woman is and two children from drowning at the southern border. the white house calling it imhumane. another attack on american forces in the red sea, we have details on how the u.s. responded. the u.s. responded. we begin this hour with the very first contest of the 2024 race for the white house. iowa caucus goers are braving some of the bitterest temperatures, plunging a low as minus 18 overnight. and a new media com poll giving us a closer look at the enthusiasm gap going into tonight s caucuses. nearly nine in ten trump supporters say they are very enthusiastic about
the world on january 15th. seven days left before iowa, and the gop field is warning voters, your first chance could be your last chance. i don t think donald trump ultimately can win an election. these polls are garbage. if donald trump wins iowa and new hampshire, it s over, guys. reminding iowans, they set the pace. iowa knows how to do this. you tell the country where we should go. but did those warnings come too late to knock out the runaway favorite? we are leading by a lot, but you have to go out and vote. we have to put big numbers up, really big numbers. no one knows until the first ballots are cast, so with the days dwindling, now is the time for closing arguments. we have reporters all over iowa with what voters are thinking and the sharpest campaign minds on what the candidates are promising. what will work? this is how to win 2024. good to be with you, i m katy tur in for chris jansing, the iowa caucuses are one week from today. let us remind yo
We vaughn, youll following the leading candidate former President Donald Trump in iowa. What can we expect . Reporter this is the first step toward Donald Trump winning the nomination again of the republican party and sending a clear message to his republican rivals that this party is still his. The Nbc News des moines Register Poll shows Donald Trump continuing to maintain a dominant lead over his gop rivals. A notable number is that 49 of his supporters said they are extremely enthusiastic about getting out there to show their support. I was down in indianola, iowa, just yesterday for his final Campaign Rally with negative 41 degree windchill. There were hundreds of folks that showed up to come see him in person, defiant that the weather will not get into the way. Listen to two of the folks i talked to, betsy and roger. Everybody is voting for trump, everybody
Get ten new caucus goers out. If theyre able to turn out those sorts of numbers, they are expected to have a big night tonight. I want to let you listen to two folks who i met at donald trumps final Rally Yesterday who came out to see him despite that negative 41 degree windchill. Take a listen. Youre going to caucus Tomorrow Night. Oh, yeah, im going drag all my kids and all my friends there and yeah. How confident are you that hes going to be able to have good turnout despite this weather . Im confident. I am. Why are trump supporters going to be the ones that show up Tomorrow Night . In my mind because we saw what happened in the last election, even though there was a lot of support. I think its just going to be huge numbers tomorrow. Jose, i was talking to one of donald trumps caucus captains there, and he told me that he upped the number of folks hes trying to turn out himself from 10 to 20 in part because of the weather dynamic understanding